The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-20
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

On Saturday last, at Jordan Valley,
at the ranch of j. w. Sharp, Jack Cow
gill was accidentally shot between the
sixth and seventh ribs by his brother,
who was in another room swapping a
44-calibre Smith IL WessOn siX-shooter,
not knowing it was loaded The ball
passed bet cen the sixuh and seventh
ribs, fracturing the same, and also cut
ting same in the rear. DR. Mitchell was
sent for. and cut out the broken parts
of the ribs, cleansed the wound aud ex-
tracted the ball. that han lodged, after
passing through the ribs, near the back.
When he LIFT on Sunday last his
patient was doing well, and is now get
ting along nicely. Portland NeWs.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has
preached & scheme to deal with Idaho
very much as Russia, Prussia and Aus
tria did with Poland-dlvIde it among
themselves ana blot Poland from the
map The scheme of the Senat r is 10
carve Idaho so az 10 give the largest
slice to Nevada, liberal si to Wash
ingt0n Territory, and something about
the size OF y glzzard comparatively, to
be left to Idaho herself II invites her
to 8 feast IRON winch he shall from her
own body serve the guests she has not
invited, and be COOLED up 10 her own
destruction, TO their satisfaction. l. is
not American, it is not night, and il
won't go. The people OF Idaho don t
want 1t, and their assent 80 "a, scheme
ought TO be he hrsc aHH imperative
consideration. WItCuut their consent,
it should not be done by Congress
Senator Stewards object is TO iOrtifv
Nevada in importance by replenishing
his state III territory. To save the sick
Lion the WOlf was asked TO allow him
self TO be cut open and YIELD his liver,
which Dr. Fox, his life-t time adversary,
prescribed. DR.. Fox was g crafty
professional, For Idaho, Senator Stew
| art repTese uts DR.. Fox. Nevada is q
vast exoanse of sage brush country
with cases Of pasture lands, holes of
| gold, mountains of silver. She hes
more miles of territory than units of
population, and this Is every year de-
| creaslng. Ia a few years her single re-
| preventative in Congress will represent
more coyotes than men; her Senators
will have to their election the sole in
| habi ants of the several counties. In
| the meantime Idaho will increase ii
population and become attractive, great
/ IN wealth, OF greater 1npofUa nee. LII
| is inevitable. Her Boise Valley, the
valleys of the Upper and Lower Pay
cite, the Nez Perez region, he region to
the South upon the News Ia ana Titan
boundaries, are destined to great fruit
fulness and prosperity. Fer mines are
yet only in the infancy of development
The Gwyhee belt, the Rocky Bar aDd
Atlanta lodes, all the Alturas mines, the
mines of Lemhi, OF Wood z. yer, OF the
Salmon River and Warren dis riots
why Idaho under promise of railroad
facilities, is bound TO become "a State
herself. To carve her in the Stewart
fashion, to exc out the population OF
Nevada, is equivalent to taking the
blood of youth soon 10 be man tc
crafty the desire of feeble adult who
thinks the vigorous infusion may
nourish and save him. Let Idaho alone
She will yet. grow and take care of her
self; be State, and shine in the con
stellation of the Union as the Gem oil
Mountains that she is.
THE CITY OF ROCKS.
Among the curious, ut-of-the-wey
places in Idaho, few are more strangt